Jacof is a character in Isaac Asimov's Empire series.
About Jacof[]
Jacof is a Florinian civil servant working as a clerk in a food-processing center in the City on the planet Florina. Jacof is a product of the Sarkite policy of recruiting the most intelligent Florinian youth for administrative duties. This system, designed to create a class of natives loyal to Sark, provided him with an education that included mathematics and logarithms, skills which set him apart from the general Florinian population and filled him with a sense of pride and superiority.
He lived with his wife, their young daughter, a younger son, and an infant child in a relatively well-appointed home in Lower City, marked by status symbols like polarized glass windows and colored plastic briquets. His attitude reflected the intended outcome of Sark's "practical genetics": a contempt for uneducated natives and a fervent belief in the law and the "good Squires" he served. His life was thrown into panic when the fugitive Townman, Myrlyn Terens, impersonating a Sarkite patroller, entered his home. Intimidated by the authority of the uniform, Jacof obediently followed Terens's orders to compile a list of all inhabitants on his city block, a task designed by Terens to create a pretext for hiding from the pursuing patrol. Jacof and his family were used as unwitting cover, providing the Townman with a few crucial minutes of respite to plan his next move before departing.